LEC 1 - What is learning

Question 1

what is learning

Answer 1

It’s a dynamic unrestricted process in changes of behaviour through experiences to which we learn along the way through life span in humans and animals

Question 2

why would we want to see animals perform in learning

Answer 2

we want to see the performances if the animal will do the same thing to prove what’s experienced in their pov is learned.

Question 3

what is the process and product of learning

Answer 3

its a relativly permanet changing in behaviour through experience

Question 4

when we talk about learning, what do we identify as behaviour

Answer 4

any activity of an organism that can be observed or somehow measured (external and internally)

Question 5

why do we study learning behaviour

Answer 5

because Understanding the basic principles of learning can help you to understand and ultimately facilitate effective behavior change

Question 6

what would be an example to effective behaviour change when learning the basic principals of learning

Answer 6

training yourself time management, doing homework everyday, improve friendships, etc.

Question 7

who made theories about the structure of learning

Answer 7

Aristole and plato

Question 8

what where the two philosipher differences in theory

Answer 8

plato had the nature approch that a persons tendency and knowledge are present at birth

aristole has nurture approch that tendencies and abillities are taught through life span.

Question 9

when we say nurture what type political policy is that

Answer 9

emprictist

Question 10

when we say nature what type of political policy is that

Answer 10

navist

Question 11

what is Associationism

Answer 11

its aristotles theory that earning and memory depend
on a formulation between experiences, ideas and events. and we link them together as associations

Question 12

what is an example of associatonism

Answer 12

when we think of water we may think of other associations with water such as cold, hot, shower, pool, swimming, etc.

Question 13

how do these associations happen

Answer 13

they happen in 4 laws to which explain why and what associations are depending on the stimuli

Question 14

what are the four laws

Answer 14

simularity
contrast
contiguity
frequency

Question 15

what is the law of simularity and example

Answer 15

if a stimuli is simular by common apperence or function

ex - water and soda

Question 16

what is the law of contrast and example

Answer 16

the stimuli being the opposite from another

EX - water and fire

Question 17

what is the law on coniguity and example

Answer 17

the stimuli is close within space and time

ex - thunder and lightning

Question 18

what is the law of frequency and example

Answer 18

the stimuli is powerful along with the association

EX - swimming everyday to practise for comp

Question 19

what did john locke and aristotle have in common

Answer 19

that children arrive in the world with a blank slate of no tendencies or abilities of any kind of learning, learning comes through experience.

Question 20

in part of dualisim, if rene believes that much of what we know is inherited from day one, would he agree more with aristotle or plato

Answer 20

plato because plato believes that what we know has been held since birth.

Question 21

what did rene suggest specsifically

Answer 21

that out mind and body were seperate from one another, while we may have the body of a machine that has triggers, our mind is at free will.

Question 22

what was tichters idea about learning

Answer 22

that we identify the basic
elements which determine structure of the mind by using introspection

Question 23

what is introspection in structualisim

Answer 23

research method where participants
subjectively described thoughts, emotions, and sensations.

Question 24

who is the political policy of functionalisim

Answer 24

william james

Question 25

what did william potray in functionalisim

Answer 25

the mind evolved to help us adapt to the world around us ; the study of adaptive processes

Question 26

in functionalisim, how would we adapt to the world around us to learn

Answer 26

we learn and develop new memories by writing about associations and combing them.

Question 27

would we say that functionalisim and navist is simular theory approch when it comes to learning behaviour

Answer 27

yes because both william and aristotle see the theory as humans and animals learn a behaviour by associating stimulis with other things from the four laws of associaonism.

Question 28

animals that have fur, four legs, a tail, and bark and ate precieved to be the same species.

what is this an example of

Answer 28

law of simulairty

Question 29

the fact that full and empty are easily associated with eachother is and example of

Answer 29

the law of contrast

Question 30

the more often one practises a particular move in wrestling the more likley one is to perform well, what is this an example of

Answer 30

frequency

Question 31

lisa walked through a lake and found a crocidile, now everytime she crosses a lake, she gets nervous each time she needs to cross the lake

what is this an example of

Answer 31

the law of contiguity

Question 32

what do we associate dualisim with

Answer 32

rene descartes and mind and body theory thats invoulentary and reflexive

Question 33

why was dualisim so important in psychology

Answer 33

because it proved that behaviours in reflexive mode could be scientifically investigated through animals which may lead us to useful information about human behaviour

Question 34

what is tabula rasa

Answer 34

it mean blank slate to the british empericists

Question 35

what did john locke believe in as a empricisits

Answer 35

that the mind composed of a finite set of basic elements that are combined through the princiapals of association to form a councious experiement.

Question 36

what do we get out of looking at learning and behaviour

Answer 36

understanding why we behave the way we do and how we can change it

Question 37

what is behaviour

Answer 37

any type of orginisim that can be observed or measured somehow

Question 38

when we read and then we speak about how we read the subject what is behaviour and learning

Answer 38

the behaviour is reading while the learning is how we precieve the subject by speaking it out loud